AC 4526, 4530 - Heavenly Light and Color

AC 4526 - Heavenly Light

The reason why a person is able to acquire intelligence
by means of the things which appear before him
in the light of this world,
is that a higher light (that is, the light of heaven)
flows into the objects which are of the light of the world,
and causes them to appear
representatively and correspondently;
for the light which is above the light of the world
is a light that proceeds from the Lord,
who illumines the universal heaven.
The very intelligence and wisdom that are from the Lord
appear there as light.
It is this light which produces
a person's understanding or internal sight,
and when it inflows through the understanding
into the objects of this world's light,
it causes them to appear
representatively and correspondently, thus intellectually.
And as the eyesight which is in the natural world
corresponds to the sight of the understanding
which is in the spiritual world,
it corresponds to the truths of faith,
because these belong to genuine understanding;
for truths produce all a person's understanding,
inasmuch as all his thought
is employed in deciding that a thing is so, or is not so;
that is, that it is true, or is not true.

AC 4530 - Heavenly Color

In general the colors seen in the other life
have splendor and whiteness
insofar as they come from the truth of intelligence;
and they have refulgence (brilliance) and crimson
insofar as they come from the good of wisdom.
Those colors which derive their origin from these sources
also belong to the provinces of the eyes.